Destiny's 'House Of Wolves' Most-Watched Game Reveal On Twitch This Year

Activision and Bungie have been pushing their newest Destiny expansion hard on Twitch, and the hype-campaign seems to be paying off.

During the three weeks the expansion streamed on Bungie's Twitch channel, the game's three live-streams garnered over 1.5 million views. Viewers have watched over 21 million hours of Destiny's "House of Wolves" expansion, which is sort of insane but certainly speaks to the game's popularity and the hype surrounding the new content.

That makes it the biggest Twitch reveal of the year (so far.)

"Based on hundreds of thousands of unique viewers, Bungie's recent series of Destiny reveals on Twitch illustrated the power of leveraging live social video to connect directly with a community," said Alex Mendez, Publisher & Developer Relations, Twitch. "Their Prison of Elders broadcast alone set a new Twitch record for the largest single game reveal of the year, peaking at over 180,000 concurrent viewers."

For some comparison stats, the "mid-season invitational" for League of Legends is currently sporting just over 270,000 concurrent viewers. No other channel (at the moment) has six figure viewer numbers.

I reached out to Twitch to see if we could get a comparison for the second biggest game reveal on the game-streaming site this year, but unfortunately they're not able to provide that information since the publisher who held the record never published it.

On a side note, watching the League of Legends mid-season invitational reminds me a lot of watching ESPN. It's still a little jarring to me that video games and spectator sports have joined together in this fashion. I'm not saying it's a bad thing, it's just still weird for me. I grew up on video games, and never enjoyed watching sports on TV. Now we can watch video game teams competing against one another. Live announcers talk about the star eSports athletes. It's nuts.

Either way, as barometers of hype go, House of Wolves' popularity on Twitch seems to be a pretty good indicator of gamer anticipation.